I've recently been working on some new branching narrative scripts for Embodied Labs, a company that provides first person immersive learning experiences for caregivers. This will be the second time I'm writing fairly complex scripts for their 360˚ VR training modules. Not complex in terms of dialogue, but complex in terms of keeping track of all the various branches and ensuring that you land where you need to be, with all your I's dotted and T's crossed! I find it is one of

What an amazing experience it was to be able to virtually attend SXSW this year, and to run Finding Pandora X performances as well as backstage tours of Mount Olympus for the virtual festival attendees!! The entire Double Eye team is so grateful to SXSW and our audience for honoring our work with the Virtual Cinema Audience award for our live interactive VR production of Finding Pandora X! I personally am also grateful for the sheer fun of visiting the virtual world of SXSW

Finding Pandora X has been selected to have its national premiere at this year's SXSW Festival in the Virtual Cinema Spotlight category! With the passing of ages, the Gods of Mount Olympus have faded away until only two remain: Zeus and Hera. Now they are in danger of disappearing if they can’t recover the box of hope that Pandora removed. Enter an immersive storyworld and join this Theatre performance where the audience plays the role of the Greek Chorus, interacting with li

In a world where so many of us have moved to a remote work situation, I am happy to say that despite the six-hour time difference, I have been able to collaborate once again with the amazing team at Incarna Studios. We're currently in the final production phase of a solo player experience that will be released on Steam in just a few short weeks. R-AI-D will have you pitting your wits against two different AI's running amok through Incarna's Training Temple. The entire network

For the second year in a row, we're taking a project to the Venice International Film Festival! Finding Pandora X is an immersive theatrical VR experience where the audience plays the role of the Greek Chorus, interacting with live Broadway actors as the play unfolds. This was an amazing project to work on! Kiira Benzing (the award-winning VR director) and I imagined a new take on the myth of Pandora almost a year ago and have been tweaking and refining it ever since with the

Our second day of open rehearsals for Pandora X, Double Eye Studios' current project in development, took place last week. It was an amazing opportunity for us to test a multitude of different interactions with both our social VR audience and our live digital audience. For this session, I scripted out a ten-minute excerpt of the play, a modern take on the ancient myth of Pandora: On Mount Olympus, Zeus is overjoyed with news from the Mortal Realm. After eons of confinement in

As we gear up for our next round of experiments with CultureHub NYC and La Mama Experimental Theater, we are looking for ways to have our on-line audience be more involved in our experience. Here are our two requests. Send your photos to press@doubleeye.co by May 6th and your images will be integrated into the virtual story world of Pandora X. Thanks in advance! #VR #virtualtheater #UGC #interactive

Last February, our team at Double Eye Studios was asked to present Pandora X, our newest project in an event co-hosted by CultureHub NYC and La Mama Experimental Theater. Since taking Loveseat to the Venice Film Festival last year, we had been reflecting on how to bridge the virtual and real world audiences in an experience that combined live theater and social VR. The "Experiments in Digital Storytelling" week-end, scheduled for early April, was the perfect opportunity to pl

I'm thrilled to announce that Loveseat, an interactive VR/AR installation, will be making its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival at the end of August. I am helping to produce and design this very exciting project directed by Kiira Benzing that will be a first of its kind: a virtual reality one act comedy performed simultaneously to virtual and real world audiences. As with all our projects, we are very interested in exploring the interactive space and dr